Explore 451 historical events from 1790–1799.
Louis-Georges-Oudard-Feudrix de Bréquigny, was a French scholar. He was born in Granville in Normandy.
Louis-Georges de Bréquigny, French scholar and author (born 1714)
Antonio de Ulloa y de la Torre-Guiral was a Spanish Navy officer. He spent much of his career in the Americas, where he carried out important scientific work that earned him a repu…
Antonio de Ulloa, Spanish general, astronomer, and politician, 1st Colonial Governor of Louisiana (born 1716)
Field Marshal Henry Seymour Conway was a British Army officer and politician. A brother of the 1st Marquess of Hertford, and cousin of Horace Walpole, he began his military career …
Henry Seymour Conway, English general and politician, Secretary of State for the Northern Department (born 1721)
Clas Bjerkander was a Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist.
Clas Bjerkander, Swedish meteorologist, botanist, and entomologist (born 1735)
Timothy Dwight Ruggles was an American colonial military leader, jurist, and politician. He was a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress of 1765 and later a Loyalist during the America…
Timothy Ruggles, American lawyer, jurist, and politician (born 1711)
Ahilyabai Holkar, also spelled Ahalya Bai, Rajmata Ahilyabai Holkar was the Holkar Queen of the Malwa kingdom. She was later ruling queen of Indore within the Maratha Empire. She e…
Ahilyabai Holkar, Queen of Indore (born 1725)
François-André Danican Philidor, born François-André Danican and often referred to as André Danican Philidor during his lifetime, was a French composer and chess master. He contrib…
François-André Danican Philidor, French-English chess player and composer (born 1726)
The French Revolutionary Wars were a series of sweeping military conflicts resulting from the French Revolution that lasted from 1792 until 1802. They pitted France against Great B…
French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a Royal Navy squadron commanded by William Cornwallis (pictured) f
Sardinians or Sards are an ethnolinguistic group of Italy indigenous to Sardinia, an island in the western Mediterranean which is administratively an autonomous region of Italy.
Sardinians, headed by Giovanni Maria Angioy, start a revolution against the Savoy domination, expelling Viceroy Balbiano
The Anglo-Corsican Kingdom, also known officially as the Kingdom of Corsica, was a client state of the Kingdom of Great Britain that existed on the island of Corsica from 1794 to 1…
Foundation of Anglo-Corsican Kingdom
The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president directs the executive branch of the federal government an…
U.S. President George Washington invokes the Militia Acts of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western…
The Battle of Beaumont-en-Cambrésis 26 April 1794 was an action forming part of a multi-pronged attempt to relieve the besieged fortress of Landrecies, during the Flanders Campaign…
Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition
The French Revolution was a period of political and societal change in France that began with the Estates General of 1789 and ended with the Coup of 18 Brumaire on 9 November 1799.…
French Revolution: Robespierre introduces the Cult of the Supreme Being in the National Convention as the new state reli
The Reign of Terror was a period of the French Revolution when, following the creation of the First Republic, a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in res…
Branded a traitor during the Reign of Terror, French chemist Antoine Lavoisier, who was also a tax collector with the Fe
The Battle of Tourcoing saw a Republican French army directed by General of Division Joseph Souham defend against an attack by a Coalition army led by Emperor Francis II and Austri…
Battle of Tourcoing during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition
The Glorious First of June, also known as the Third Battle of Ushant and the Fourth Battle of Ushant, was fought on 1 June 1794 between the British and French navies during the War…
The battle of the Glorious First of June is fought, the first naval engagement between Britain and France during the Fre
Joseph Whidbey FRS was a member of the Royal Navy who served on the Vancouver Expedition 1791–95, and later achieved renown as a naval engineer. He is notable for having been the f…
Joseph Whidbey leads an expedition to search for the Northwest Passage near Juneau, Alaska.
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius was a German botanist and explorer. Between 1817 and 1820, he travelled 10,000 km through Brazil while collecting botanical specimens. His most i…
Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist and explorer (died 1868)
William Debenham was the founder of Debenhams, once one of the largest retailers in the United Kingdom.
William Debenham, English founder of Debenhams (died 1863)
Louis Léopold Robert was a Swiss painter.
Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (died 1835)
Isaac Ignaz Moscheles was a Bohemian piano virtuoso and composer. He was based initially in London and later in Leipzig, where he joined his friend and sometime pupil Felix Mendels…
Ignaz Moscheles, Czech pianist and composer (died 1870)
William Whewell was an English polymath. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge. In his time as a student there, he achieved distinction in both poetry and mathematics.
William Whewell, English priest and philosopher (died 1866)
The Haitian Revolution, also known as the Haitian War of Independence, was a successful insurrection by enslaved Africans against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue, now the so…
Haitian Revolution: Battle of Port-Républicain: British troops capture the capital of Saint-Domingue
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman, widely recognised as one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution. Robespierre f…
Maximilien Robespierre inaugurates the French Revolution's new state religion, the Cult of the Supreme Being, with large